{"id":4785,"date":"2016-08-29T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T02:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2022-03-20T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T20:19:30","slug":"my-dubiously-relevant-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/29\/my-dubiously-relevant-subject\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dubiously Relevant Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year I begin my eighth grade social studies class by asking students to answer this question on an index card:<\/p>\n

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Why is social studies the most important class you will take this year?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s an absurd question, of course, and I learn a lot by seeing how each student tackles it. Most of them simply write out some reasons why social studies is important. Others add that other classes are equally<\/em> important. A few argue that another subject trumps social studies altogether. Occasionally someone identifies it as a leading question and castigates me for pedagogic incompetence.<\/p>\n

This year, however, I received an answer that had me laughing aloud at my desk after school:<\/p>\n

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I don’t know yet. Convince me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Challenge accepted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year I begin my eighth grade social studies class by asking students to answer this question on an index card: Why is social studies the most important class you will take this year? It’s an absurd question, of course, and I learn a lot by seeing how each student tackles it. Most of them … Continue reading My Dubiously Relevant Subject<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,5],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-4785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew","category-teaching","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7463,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions\/7463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}